A response to meriam's blog!!

In the Kite Runner, Amir is constantly expressing how he needs to live up to Baba's legacy. He shows this through all the cases in which Baba shows more love to Hassan. Amir believes that he needs to live up a certain goal during this specific event because he thinks that the only way to win the love of Baba is to be at his level. Here is a quote that represents this theme from Meriam's blog.

 The downfall for Amir was just that because his father was widely known within Afghanistan it was up to him to live up to that legacy.

Here, Meriam explains that Amir sets up his own down fall by believing in this "fore told" story. I believe this because Amir believes this and sets him self up for failure from the beginning, Throughout the story, there arise more and more examples of this theme, like after discovery of how good a dad his father actually was, then he strives to become as good a father, a Baba, as Amir's real dad was. Again and again, Amir tests him self to become like Baba.